>>>>> "AW" == Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: AW> (Interestingly, there is actually a way to solve this AW> *retroactively*: the other week I was kicking around the idea of AW> setting up a third-party repo containing a single package named AW> fedora-obsoletes which just contains a bunch of obsoletes for AW> known-retired-but-not-obsoleted packages. There is already a package in the distribution called "fedora-obsolete-packages" which exists only to obsolete things. AW> I think I've proposed at least once that we make Obsoletes: for AW> retired packages mandatory. My last proposal currently seems to be AW> assigned to tibbs. I don't recall anything about _forcing_ retired packages to be obsoleted. The current rules just say that you must do so if allowing the package to continue to exist would cause dependency issues. Forcing the removal of packages from systems when not necessary is somewhat draconian. - J< _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
